Improvement in canisters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH S. FIELD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,006, dated December14, 1875; application filed July 12, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. FIELD, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Canisters fortea, coffee, 850., of which the following is a specification:

My improved canister is made with two projecting buttresses infront--one at each side of the front-end between these is the verticalportion of the front and an inclined flap that swings upwardly. Saidflap is between the buttresses when it is either turned up or down, sothat its edges are protected by the buttresses, and risk of the flapbeing caught by the clothing or any passing article is avoided.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical sec tion of the canister, andFig. 2 is a sectional plan at the line 00 w.

The canister is made with the bottom a, sides I), back 0, and top at, inwhich is an opening with a cover, 0, that allows for the canister to befilled. The front of the canister is made of the upper tablet f,swinging flap g, and bottom ledge h, against which the flap g closes,and the hinges of the flap at i are near the bottom of, and sufficientlyremoved from, the face of the tablet to allow the flap to lean againstthe tablet f when open and turned back. The buttresses l l at the sideportions of the canister front are slightly inclined, and they projectsufficiently beyond the edges of the flap g to form a protection to thesame,

and the appearance of the canister front is also improved by thesebuttresses. The inclined septum m extendsfrom the lower part of thetablet f toward the back of the canister, leaving, however, a sufficientspace for the tea, cofi'ee, spice, or other material in the canister topass down beneath the septum, so that it can be taken up by an ordinaryscoop inserted through the opening of the front when the flap is turnedup out of the way. The ledge It prevents the material upon the bottom ofthe canister spilling out, and retains a sufficient quantity of suchmaterial below the septum for convenience in the use of the scoop.

In this canister, the flap, turning upwardly,

is entirelyout of the way of the scoop, and, when turned down, itoccupies an inclined position, and rests at its edges upon the frontportions of the can.

I claim as my invention The canister made with the buttresses ll at eachside of the front port-ion, and with the swinging flap 9 between andprotected by such buttresses, and hinged at the top and closing at thebottom against the ledge h, as

set forth.

Signed by me this 9th day of July, A. D.

JOSEPH S. FIELD. Witnesses:

Gno. T. PINCKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH.

